Crafty Videos: Show of your craft skills.

Hey Everyone,

Just a quick update on the Blog to remind you off all the awesome stuff you can be doing on Shotclip this year! Ok so you may be an amateur right now but with our help we'll help you build your story and be creative and wow your friends with cool videos!

Craft and DIY 

This year we're all about the personalized do it yourself gift! Lets face it, after Christmas we all want to be a bit more frugal with the penny's, yet birthday's crop up, not to mention Valentines day and anniversaries.

We have recently gotten into  www.etsy.com for all things crafty and cutesy! Making something yourself is fun, cheap and personal. We bought some crafty paraphernalia on Etsy o make ourselves and friends some jewelry. There are lots of Etsy Haul Videos online that give you advice on the best shops and also craft videos to show you how to make and do!

We wanted to make our very own, to promote our jewelry and to show off our skills! To help you make your own Etsy craft or Haul video, we created guides on the ShotClip website to start you of making your videos and showing off your talents. With our help your Etsy related videos will look professional and fun and most of all get loads of views and bring buyers to your Etsy shop!

Our Etsy haul, ready to be crafted.

DIY wedding video? Use a storyboard!

Have you ever used a storyboard to capture a family wedding video? A lot of people probably don’t. If you’re not in the film industry, why would you? Or maybe you don’t know what a storyboard does and don’t see the benefits associated with using one.

Storyboards are an essential element in the movie making process. A movie, animation and even a play in a theatre won’t get produced without someone creating a storyboard first. It’s basically a series of images or pictures used to visualise the movie before it is made. The storyboard form that is in use today was actually developed in the Walt Disney studios back in the 1930’s. Gone with the Wind was one of the first live action films to be completely storyboarded. One of my favourite movies, it’s so dramatic! 

A good storyboard should include information on characters in the scene, what the characters are doing, if the camera should be close or far and whether the camera should be moving.

There are so many benefits to using a storyboard, even for amateur videographers. If you have a storyboard in place before creating your movie it helps to eliminate a lot of problems before they actually happen. It allows you to think of your video as a story and helps you plan the shots you’re going to take, the best way to take them and when.  With a storyboard you can also ask for feedback on your ideas before you take your shots which will eliminate time wasting and bad shots.

Storyboards can be drawn with pen or pencil, taken with photographs or even pictures from magazines can be used. Whatever you feel comfortable doing or whatever your artistic talent allows you! If you don’t have time to create a storyboard you can use the Shotclip storyboard. Shotclip describes the wedding video in seven scenes and each scene contributes to the story of the wedding. The storyboard has been developed by a team of professional film makers and wedding videographers so you know exactly what shots to get – before the ceremony, after the ceremony, the reception and even the dancing. You won’t miss anything and you’ll be left with a great wedding movie.

To find out more about the Shotclip storyboard check out www.shotclip.com or look at our video tutorials http://www.youtube.com/Shotclip.